…I also got to meet Julia and Duncan Brine. In their landscape design firm, they specialize in native plants, so I was excited to meet them and visit their gardens. The gardens ramble over six acres. In contrast to the familiar limitations of urban gardening, it may as well have been 600 acres. The property [...]

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PlantersPlace.com | The Kitchen Garden | Edible Shrubs at the Brine Garden I met Duncan Brine at the Garden Writers Association Symposium last year in Portland but it wasn’t until yesterday that I got a peek at his fabulous garden in the Hudson Valley. Duncan and his wife Julia have transformed their six acre property [...]

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“Eden Reconsidered” A Passionate Appreciation of the Brine Garden by Marilyn Bethany At once naturalistic and theatrical, Brine’s garden challenges every assumption.  A knowledgeable plantsman who teaches off-season at the New York Botanical Garden, he confidently tosses together commonplace natives with rare and exquisite exotics, mass plantings with specimens, fine tuning each close-up but always [...]

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A Purposeful Confusion | Archives | Archives | Hudson Valley Magazine  

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Vistas and Close-Ups, Staged by a Filmmaker – New York Times  

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